He did change the characterization of Alana this season based on the negative feedback over her Season 2 role.

A lot of people are accusing Fuller of switching Lounds with Chilton due to the Beverly Katz backlash. What do you guys think? Fuller hasn't shied away from depicting violence against women, and he has made it a yearly tradition to torture poor Chilton…

Was it implied that Dolarhyde found and murdered Hannibal's attorney? If not, it seems odd that the call wasn't screened to ensure that the person calling actually was who he claimed to be, but this is the world of Hannibal. Stranger things have happened.

I was nodding right up until you mentioned Chilton not making an impact in the film. Anthony Heald is brilliantly slimy in the role, and I'm happy that Raul Esparza has proven himself to be such a worthy successor.

In fairness, Dolarhyde is an extremely disturbed and awkward individual who has a…uh…interesting relationship with the women in his victims' families, so it makes sense that he would say something so odd. Reba knows about the facial deformity and has probably inferred that he's also a loner, so she's less likely to…

Holy shit, Richard Armitage. His delivery of "The Great…Red…Dragon" (slipping into a deeper, more menacing tone to reflect the dragon within) at the end gave me chills.

Well, yeah, but is Freddie one to be accurate? Of course she'd push the "Will is actually a devoted follower of Hannibal" angle as much as possible, even if it's really stretching the truth.

Well, Hannibal and Will have a different relationship in the book than they do in this show, so the emphasis on familial bonds is an appropriate deviation. It reflects the history between them that's not there in the book itself. I like Fuller's approach of quoting directly from the books fairly often - even…

She had one of the most interesting arcs this season, IMO. Her character was all about pursuing a single goal after being "awakened" by Will. That she never really fit in was Fuller's point; she's a ghost from the past. I'd love to see more of her, but I think her final scene was a good moment to end on.

I think Chiyoh spent enough time with Will to realize that he would influence Hannibal to surrender. She stayed in the woods with the gun to make sure of that.

I loved Chiyo's little arc this season. Her history with Hannibal was a clever way to connect the story to his past without being too explicit. Hannibal's final line to her about perpetually being imprisoned, and her seemingly being driven to make Hannibal surrender as a debt to Mischa, was the perfect way for it to…

The over-the-top ridiculousness of the death-by-eel was what I loved most about it. Mason is an absurd, entertaining character; nothing less than an equally absurd death would have sufficed.

What's even more fucked up about it is the fact that the pig has a nursery. Those little lights disturbed me more than anything else in the episode.

I'm going to miss the hell out of Joe Anderson. His final scene was one of the show's best. "CORDELL!"

Sembene being truly dead was disappointing (even though he got more to do this season, I still feel the character deserved better), but this excellent show's greatest sin is still casting the criminally underused David Warner as Van Helsing and doing basically nothing with him.

Can we get some appreciation for Hugh Dancy's performance? He's given less to do this time around, but I thought he knocked it out of the park in episode two. Will is a difficult character to play, especially since we're not entirely sure how he means to deal with Hannibal when he can forgive him for following his…

I think the first five episodes this season have had some of the strongest thematic and emotional material out of the entire series. Episode 2 in particular is an astounding meditation on how grief manifests and brought the Will-Hannibal dynamic forward in new, exciting ways. I'll never understand where the "style…

Perhaps, but I think Fuller wanted an older look for those scenes (especially if he was intentionally aping Coppola). Or he's a fan of steam locomotives - who knows? In any case, I don't think the model of the train is something most people would pick up on.

I'm almost certain the train was an artistic deviation to achieve a certain mood. All of those scenes had a Dracula-esque feel, right down to the sun-drenched lighting.

I think this puts Jack not calling for backup into context. At this point, his conflict with Hannibal is so deeply personal and such an integral part of what drives him forward that it had to be between the two of them. Had it not been for that clever trick with the corpse, Hannibal would have surely been captured…